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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Hurrier I Go

I'm late, I'm late.

I haven't posted in a while, and in the last couple of weeks I've
been posting less than I like. I just got back from a trip to the East
Coast to visit my son and his girlfriend, who just bought a house. It
was a great visit, I had a wonderful time, and I have lots of pictures
to prove it.

Now I just have to find the time and
inclination to post them. They wanted advice about what to do with their
new garden, and I have lots of ideas, so I want to tell you about
that.

Two rows of enormous conifers 6 feet apart in the front yard of my son's newly purchased home about 10 feet from the front of the house -- an exercise in What Were They Thinking?

The four of us in front of a mock-up "selfie wall" of the Mapparium -- photos in the actual Mapparium not allowed

We
visited the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts, which
I never visited despite living for 50+ years in the area, and I want to
post about that.

Cupid at Tower Hill applying antiperspirant

In
addition, our weather here in the PNW has been and will apparently continue to be
glorious, so before we went away I was making great progress in the
garden, and I want to show that, and I need to get back to doing that.

12 comments:

Now that you've whetted our appetite for all those posts, you need to get at it, Alison! Actually, I've been suffering from some of the same post-writing malaise myself. I've got all those Fling tours to post about, as well as stuff in my own garden and ideas about posts on neighboring areas, but I can't seem to get to them. I decided to cut myself some slack and just chip away at posts without focusing on the back-log.

It's always good to have blog material lined up and waiting. I'm between ideas for my posts. We are at the point in our garden, however, that we have taken the last two afternoons off, just enjoying being outside, sitting and reading.

OMG yes, that is a WWTT if ever I saw one. Not one, but two rows! Glad you got in a successful vacation and I look forward to fabulous posts ahead...(says the girl who is still posting from a 2016 garden tour...).

Is one of your ideas to cut all the trees down? That would be the first thing I'd tackle in the yard! My son lives on the East Coast too, and I seldom see them. He did visit last week to see my Oregon house for the first time.

Gardening is a solitary activity. But blogging about it is a social phenomenon! I don't make money from my blog by advertising, or use it to drive customers to a business. If you liked my post, or my writing or photography, or even just one picture or turn of phrase, I'd love to hear from you. That's how I get paid.

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About Me

My husband and I moved here to Washington state in the Fall of 2008, after more than 25 years living in the same house in Massachusetts. We lived in a rental house here for about a year, and have now bought a house, in August, 2009.
I want my blog to chronicle the process of turning our new yard into the garden of my dreams. One reason I was interested in moving to Washington was for the great gardening. A dream come true!